APPENDIX R
Declarations signed by His Excellency the Viceroy and the Governor-General of India, and appended to the Ratified Convention of 7th of September, 1904.
His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, having ratified the convention which was concluded at Lhasa on the 7th of September, 19o4, by Colonel Younghusband, C. I. E., British Commissioner for Tibet frontier matters, on behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and by Lo-Sang, Gyal-Tsen, the Ga-den, Ti-Rimpoche, and the representatives of the Council of the monasteries, Se-ra, Dre-pung, and Ga-den, and of the Government of Tibet, is pleased to direct as an act of grace that the sum of money which the Tibetan Government have bound themselves, under the terms of Article 6 of the said convention, to pay to his Majesty's Government as an indemnity for the expenses incurred by the latter in connection with the dispatch of armed forces to Lhasa, be reduced from Rs. 7,500,000 to Rs. 2,500,000, and to declare that the British occupation of Chumbi Valley shall cease, after the payment of three annual installments of said indemnity, as fixed by the said Article. Provided, however, that the trade marts, as stipulated in Article 2 of the convention, shall have been effectively opened for three years, as provided in Article 6 of the convention, and that in the meantime the Tibetans shall have faithfully complied with the term of the said Convention in all other respects.
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